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Definition of Heroical
1. Adjective. Having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes. "Heroic explorers"
Definition of Heroical
1. a. Heroic.
Definition of Heroical
1. Adjective. Heroic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heroical
1. courageous; noble [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroical
Literary usage of Heroical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1893)
"There was a new and enlarged edition in 1598 ; heroical other editions ...
And though heroical be properly understood of demigods, as of Hercules and /Eneas ..."
2. Richard the Third Up to Shakespeare by George Bosworth Churchill (1900)
"But even if this is accepted, it does not necessarily follow that the last line
refers to the heroical Epistles. The ''like himself is commonly interpreted, ..."
3. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jean Jules Jusserand (1908)
"I ayee C heroical DEEDS IN A heroical NOVEL, 1605. CHAPTER VII. AFTER SHAKESPEARE.
I. IN the works of Nash and his imitators, the different parts are badly ..."
4. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... The Strange Discovery led to a recrudescence of the ruder earlier type of
heroical romance, precisely as the popularity of prose romance begot a renewed ..."
5. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"When his critics spoke of him as an imitator, they were probably thinking of his
England's heroical Epistles, which were, of course, suggested by ..."
6. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"Once more, the Stationers' Register (July, 1565, to July, 1566) records the
licensing of an 1 For the later recrudescence of these heroical romances, ..."
7. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... cure of heroical love, all doubts are cleared, and impediments removed; I say
again, what remains, but that according to both their desires, ..."
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